>Hummina humina – Fallout 3 is fabulous. It’s everything I wanted it to be. It plays similarly to Oblivion with all the awesomeness of Oblivion & Fallout combined. The combat system is your run of the mill point and shoot… until you activate VATS which stops the action and allows you to choose which body part of which target you want to shoot, with a very RPG % likeliness of hitting each body part. You can shoot the gun out of their hand – or blow the arm off completely – and to accompany these shots is an awesome (VERY…
>GOG.com (Good Old Games) Beta Goes Live!
>GOG.com has gone live, you can purchase Good Old Games for 5.99 or 9.99 depending.Descent 1 & 2 (or 3 & Expansion), Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, Kingpin, Messiah, and Redneck Rampage – remember that one? I also found this little gem: Castles 2 No more trying to get Win95/Win98 working with your new hardware, or break out the old Pentium II in order to play these old gems – they’re all certified to play on XP and Vista (including x64!). Awesome.
>Video Game Movies
>I’ve been loving 2560 x 1600 for all games lately with the latest version of nVidia drivers and now I took some video. First one is 25fps, other 2 are 60 fps but I belive Windows Movie Maker does 15fps for WMV 720p. They were originally recorded at 2560 x 1600 but the compression doesn’t really do it justice. In any case, have fun viewing:
>PhysX Fun
>nVidia has finally gotten around to upgrading their cards with PhysX. They bought Agea a while ago, and it’s been a long time coming. Any nVidia card that is an 8 series or above is able to be upgraded, which means no separate PhysX process is required, the firmware update uses the GPU to do all the cachunking of the (previously) dedicated physics chip. This means towers that can be taken down, realistic wall destroying, and many other items only possible with a physics engine. Just like GPUs advanced the graphics, Physics processing will advance the gameplay and realworld feeling…
>New SLi Comparison
>I picked up another card to do SLi this weekend. I wanted more, I wanted 2560×1600. I priced out what it would cost me to get a 9800GX2 including the trade-in from EVGA and it was going to be like $350+, so I instead spent $170 for another 8800 GTS – which were getting scarce so I moved on it. I tested using 3D Mark Vantage (for VISTA) as my existing 3D Mark 2006 is not working in VISTAx64 because it says OpenAL32.dll is not present (which it is).I’d rather use 3DMark 06 as it’s a more accurate guage given…
>First Look at FarCry2
>If you thought Crysis was cool:Video: First look at FarCry2 They did it even better with FarCry 2, without aliens. Top 100 Best Tech Products – top 10 are right on… minus a few (like Facebook, XP?!!). I had never heard of the SD card that turns your camera into a wifi device.
>GTA IV
>GTA IV (as ususal) looks AMAZING Change the number at the end of the url to see other random pics:http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_53.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_17.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_21.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_45.html
>Inbreeding and Free
>An interesting article – blue eyes are related to Melanoma. EA announced “Battlefield Heros”, due out this summer. It’s from the Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 team and it’s FREE. However before you go screaming in delight like a little girl… it’s cartoon (cell shaded?) and there will most likely be a ton of kids playing. They’ll probably use it as a springboard for all their other games and/or something 12 year olds like.
>Bogus!
>Check out these results of the Crysis DEMO.Crysis x32 vs x64 DX9Crysis x32 vs x64 DX10 Granted, it’s the DEMO but if you’re going to include separate bin32 and bin64 directories then why isn’t it native? I think Crysis intended to do it right and then EA swoopt down with their bagful of money… and pooped out the game.
>BioShock – EtchASketch Style Sooooo much to blog: weddings So first there was my own wedding… then then Justin’s… and now Jon’s on Saturday. baby Not mine, Matt and Jenn had a baby – Charlotte is the baby’s name and she’s my new niece!Of course everyone wants to talk about the young recently married couple’s plans for children… undoubtedly comes up in any conversation within a given square footage of any given newborn, but for the moment (most of) the spotlight has shifted…“Before we’re 30” is the basic mantra, but who knows. I was amazed at how small the baby…